ASTANA (Kazakhstan): India wrapped up their marketing campaign on the Asian Desk Tennis Championships with three medals, together with a historic bronze within the girls’s doubles, after Ayhika Mukherjee and Sutirtha Mukherjee‘s dream run ended within the semifinals on Sunday.
The world No. 15 pair, who shocked the reigning world champions from China en path to a bronze on the Asian Video games final yr, fell to Japan’s Miwa Harimoto and Miyuu Kihara, 4-11, 9-11, 8-11 in below 30 minutes of their last-four conflict.
Previous to that, the Indian duo had defeated South Korea’s Kim Nayeong and Lee Eunhye within the quarterfinals to safe India’s first-ever girls’s doubles medal on the Asian meet.
The Indian girls’s workforce had earlier clinched a historic bronze within the workforce occasion.
The trio of Manika Batra, Ayhika Mukherjee, and Sutirtha Mukherjee secured the nation’s first-ever medal within the girls’s workforce class for the reason that competitors started in 1972, although they ultimately misplaced 1-Three to Japan within the semifinals.
Within the males’s class, India secured one other bronze, their third straight within the match, after the workforce of Achanta Sharath Kamal, Manav Thakkar, and Harmeet Desai fell 0-Three to Chinese language Taipei within the semifinals.
In males’s singles, Manav Thakkar and Manush Shah bowed out within the pre-quarterfinals.
World No. 60 Thakkar, who had earlier shocked world No. 14 Jang Woojin of South Korea, was defeated by Hong Kong’s Baldwin Chan, 4-11, 4-11, 8-11.
In the meantime, Manush put up a troublesome combat towards Lin Yun-Ju of Chinese language Taipei and took two video games earlier than narrowly shedding 8-11, 5-11, 11-7, 11-6, 12-14.
